Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?

Seeing As God Sees

I recently heard an often asked question as to why God would allow all of the bad things that are happening in the world to take place. If God is a loving God, how does it make sense that he would allow so much pain and suffering?

I’m not going to directly give you the answer, as that is something each person must come to in their own unfolding of consciousness, but I will share my experience of a spiritual awareness that might give you a reference point towards the answer.

In the upper levels where God resides, the experience is loving. The most intense loving. Full and complete love. Not the love of romance. Not the love of sensation or feeling. If the word love could be expressed in a mathematic equation, you would need to add an infinite exponent to the word love’s value. It is a love that is beyond love.

The experience of awakening to the Spiritual Heart of God is one of coming home. It feels like being in the embrace of the most loving parent.

There are no words that accurately convey what it is, because it is not of this world.

God sees good because God is good. You can only see evil when you carry evil within you. There is no evil in God, as that is an experience of the duality in these lower levels.

As an extension of the God force, an individuated aspect of the divine, you are a creator in the likeness of God. Part of creating is being responsible to the creation. The ultimate responsibility is to love your creation. That is how you act consistent with God, love your creation as God loves his creation.

A good friend of mine and author, Russell Bishop, sent me some interesting information about the It of Itself. There are references in the Torah and Bible to the Ani-Hu. That is the tone we chant in the workshops, retreats, and spiritual classes that I am involved in which I learned from my teacher, John-Roger.

The Hu is Sanskrit for God and the “ani” prefix invokes the quality of compassion, but there is also another meaning. In Hebrew, ani hu means “I am he” or “I he,” and is often translated as “I am that I am,” when God speaks as to who he is. In chanting ani-hu, we are not only tapping into the frequency of God and compassion, which is fulfilling what Jesus said are the greatest commandments: to love God (Hu/God) and love your neighbor as yourself (ani/compassion), it is also chanting the name that God calls Itself, the “I am that I am.”

God is that which is. When you are dwelling in the awareness of God, you only see goodness from that consciousness. To illustrate this there is a story of Jesus passed down through the oral traditions, though not in the canonical gospels. Jesus and his disciples were walking down the road and there was a carcass of a dog. The others with him were disgusted by the stench and the ugliness of the dead dog’s decaying body. Jesus looked and commented on what beautiful teeth it had.

This simple story is illustrative of how you view the world when in the higher consciousness. You find the good and the beautiful even in the worst, because you are seeing through God’s eyes which are loving eyes. In practical terms, you use everything for your upliftment. You see the good even in the challenges, how they are for your spiritual growth, and doing that can actually change what seems bad into something beneficial for yourself and others. You become the alchemist, turning the lead of the pain of existence into the gold of the loving awareness of God.

The psychic/material levels that we live in are not an easy or a pleasant place to be. In your human experience, you can be aware of many different levels at the same time. You might be suffering and in pain, but also aware of something intensely transcendent. Your emotions can be upset and inflamed, and at the same time you can be aware of observing from a place of calm. And that is just the start of what is available in multi-level awareness.

You can simultaneously be in the bliss of higher consciousness yet experiencing suffering and pain in your body awareness.

One of the spiritual truths is that you are not given anything you cannot handle. It may not be easy to handle, but you can handle it. When people go beyond their own current experience and internalize the bad they perceive “out there” in the world, creating upset, they are usually seeing their own negativity reflected to them in how they are viewing the situation. In their upset, they disconnect from the clarity of their inner knowing.